![]() He was an outspoken advocate of civil liberties and was at constant risk from the strict censorship laws of the Catholic French monarchy. He was one of the first authors to become renowned and commercially successful internationally. He wrote more than 20,000 letters and 2,000 books and pamphlets. Voltaire was a versatile and prolific writer, producing works in almost every literary form, including plays, poems, novels, essays, histories, and scientific expositions. ![]() Vissarion Belinsky, Jeremy Bentham, Jorge Luis Borges, Lord Byron, Catherine the Great, Emilie de Chatelet, Denis Diderot, Gustave Flaubert, Frederick the Great, William Godwin, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alexander Herzen, Kermani, Christopher Hitchens, Victor Hugo, Karl Marx, Napoleon, Friedrich Nietzsche, Thomas Paine, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Percy Bysshe Shelley, David Strauss, Mary Wollstonecraftįrançois-Marie Arouet ( French: 21 November 1694 – ), known by his nom de plume Voltaire ( / v ɒ l ˈ t ɛər, v oʊ l-/ also US: / v ɔː l-/ French: ), was a French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his criticism of Christianity-especially the Roman Catholic Church-as well as his advocacy of freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and separation of church and state. ![]()
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